In an early draft of the novel in which he appears, this character is told by another character that he has “guessed the truth” and that “everything happened precisely as [this character] described it”. This man gives up his job at a museum after winning “a hundred thousand” from a state bond. As he “has nowhere to escape to,” this character never uses stolen keys to escape a psychiatric hospital, where he is introduced to the poet Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev, whose pen name is (*) “Bezdomny.” This character writes a novel that describes the condemnation of Yeshua Ha-Nozri in Jerusalem, which he burns, only to be told that “manuscripts don’t burn.” In a novel partly titled for this man, he and his partner receive a gift from Azazello and Professor Woland. For 10 points, name this title character from a Mikhail Bulgakov novel who is loved by Margarita. ■END■
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| Ethan Ashbrook | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | Weird Klaus Barbie | 106 | -5 | 
| Morgan Bozeman | Our Job is Buzz | doubleplusnegfive | 128 | -5 | 
| Morgan Bozeman | Our Job is Buzz | doubleplusnegfive | 128 | -5 | 
| Carson Gehring | Weird Klaus Barbie | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | 145 | 10 | 
| Chinmay Kansara | doubleplusnegfive | Our Job is Buzz | 147 | 10 | 
| Chinmay Kansara | doubleplusnegfive | Our Job is Buzz | 147 | 10 |